School of Babel
2015
DVD
French documentary filmed over the course of one academic year in a secondary school in the diverse 10th district of Paris for immigrant chldren, 'La Grange aux Belles', following Brigitte Cervoni, who teaches non-French speaking children between the ages of eleven and 15 to read and write the language fluently, and her class of 24 diverse immigrant teen pupils who are recent émigrés to the French capital.
Item Details
Edition: Widescreen edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital optical
- video file DVD video
- polychrome
- NTSC
Target Audience Note:
- MPAA: Not rated.
- CHVR: Not rated.
Other Title: Cour de Babel (Motion picture)
Notes:
- Title from disc surface.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
- Wide screen.
- Cinematography, Julie Bertuccelli; editor, Josiane Zardoya; music, Olivier Daviaud.
- Teacher: Brigitte Cervoni ; students: Abir Gares, Agnieszka Zych, Alassane Couattara, Andréa Drazic, Andromeda Havrincea, Daniel Alin Szasz, Daniil Kliashkou, Djenabou Conde, Eduardo Ribeiro Lobato, Felipe Arellano Santibanez, Kessa Keita, Luca Da Silva, Marco Aurelio Dos Santos, Marko Jovanovic, Maryam Aboagila, Miguel Angel Cegarra Monsalve, Mihajlo Sustran, Naminata Kaba Diakite, Nethmal Mampitiya Arachchige, Oksana Denys, Ramatoulaye Ly, Thathsarani Mampitiya Arachchige, Xin Li, Yong Xia, Youssef Ezzangaoui.
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) presentation.
- In French and other languages with English subtitles.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 11950845
Control Number: 2413285
UPC:
- 854565002197
- 854565002197
Subjects:
- Children of immigrants -- Education -- France -- Paris.
- Culture conflict -- France -- Paris.
- French language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
- Immigrant children -- Education -- France -- Paris.
- Multicultural education -- France -- Paris.
- Multilingual education -- France -- Paris.
- Teenage immigrants -- Education (Secondary) -- France -- Paris.
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